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By 1970, the hippie dream of the 60s was dead — the sound track to revolution had become a multi-million dollar industry, and 'rock' had lost its 'roll'. In 1974, a rescue movement arrived on the streets of New York City. Within two years it had spread West to California, and then East to London. Punk was born. This is a first hand account of this little documented era — of life alongside Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, the Velvet Underground, David Bowie and the New York Dolls, of the gigs at CBGBs hitting the news as Warhol and his glittering crew descended — to its worldwide explosion, with Malcom McLaren hijacking the scene's momentum, the Blank Generation plunged into excess and eventual ruin, its survivors making the leap into mainstream.
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